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It's no big deal, just a simple model, but its rather big.....it's 2,000 spheres, so give it a minute to load up.

The deal is, the spheres are booleaned (1,000 spheres inside of 1,000 spheres). This way if I wanted to make the spheres glass with a hollowed out interior, I easily could.

As the scene file is...ALL the spheres are neutral.

Via families, you can select the Inner spheres, the Outer Spheres, and Rods. You can then select and make all the inner spheres negative, the outer ones positive, or just delete the inner spheres, whatever you want. Using the family's also makes it easier to apply materials.

*Use this for absolutely whatever you want, commercial or non-commercial, re-distribute in any way you freaking want. I relinquish any and all copyright to this scene file and all its contents to anyone/everyone.

Thanks.

AgentSmith

Way cool!!!!

my mind is bondering on what kind of abstract one could do with that. hmmm, thanks for the freebie AS but i think i'll leave that one well alone ;)

Just what I always wanted!

I have to ask why? It is cool, btw, but why?

Thanks AS! But I don't think I'll bother. Sphere #875 is 0.021bu out of line...........

"it's 2,000 spheres, so give it a minute to load up." Then give it a minute (or two) whenever you want to select one of the families, and another minute (or three) if you want to do anything to them :)

Its not so bad once the scene is loaded up, BUT...I STRONGLY suggest taking your wireframe resolution down to 8 or 16. AgentSmith

Lol....every sphere is absolutely perfectly spaced....;o) (through the miracle of multi-rep) AS

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Did you have to use some Algebra to design it?

Pretty simple, everything is just spaced 20 units apart. With multi-rep, you could create this thing in a matter of minutes. AS

Might make a section of a Borg ship...

can i render it in vue? :D drac

reminds me of crystallography..;)
oh, and before Drac can say it....
nice rack..;)

Message edited on: 03/09/2005 11:42

DAMMIT PAKLED, it just came to me... drac (never thought i could say this to a guy, but nice rack dude!) ((damnation!))

The reason i asked for the math, I saw a similar object somewehere on the net, and there was 5 lines of Algebra explaining how it was done. I suck at math.

10 10 x 10 ---- 1000 Why don't you make the rods hollow like the spheres?

Message edited on: 03/09/2005 15:07

Size everything up, put your camera inside, it could look like an Escher.

thanks AS ---cooler multirep object

You're welcome. ;o)

Why didn't I make the rods hollow?...Beacuse I don't like 1 week long renders, lol.

The rods can be made hollow easy;

*Select all cylinders (using the family color)

*In Attributes, make them all positive. Apply.

*Then, ctrl+d to duplicate them.

*The duplicates will automatically be selected, best give them their own family color.

*Select the duplicates attributes and make them negative & make them smaller than what they currently are. (maybe take the XYZ down by 2 units each, for example). Apply.

*That should do it, the rods are already in groups, so the boolean should already work. (from what I remember)

NOTE;

How to simulate a Rod (or even a sphere) as hollow without doing all this booleaning??

Easy...just give whatever glass material you are using a refraction of (around) 76. (and it renders faster than booleaning)

;o)

AS

interesting ... thanks !!!